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Gabonese Trade Union Confederation

trade union centre in Gabon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ5515449 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Gabonese Trade Union Confederation (COSYGA) is a trade union centre in Gabon.

Founded in 1969 under the name Fédération Syyndicale Gabonaise, it changed its name to COSYGA in 1978. The COSYGA was closely linked with the government until 1991, when it affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.

Notable people

Simone Saint-Dénis (1930-2008)

References

ICTUR; et al., eds. (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.

Editorial summary

“Gabonese Trade Union Confederation” enters the record as trade union centre in Gabon. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gabonese, Trade and Union can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1978, 1991, 1930—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gabonese, Trade and Union.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5515449. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1978, 1991 and 1930.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gabonese Trade Union Confederation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.